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For security and compliance purposes, only custom scripts approved by Datto may be run on networking devices. To be eligible for support, scripts must have completed the approval process and be hosted on a Datto server. Custom script support will be deprecated in the future. If custom scripts are critical to your deployment and you require ongoing support after this date, contact your Datto sales representative. If you are a Datto partner and require presence analytics, consider configuring the Datto Networking syslog or presence API features.

How it works

Fill the "custom.sh" field (under Advanced) with the URL (domain + folder) which contains your "custom.sh" script including the trailing slash. For example:

http://www.mydomain.com/subfolder/

The firmware will download the "custom.sh" file from that location each time the dashboard sends a full configuration reply to the device (mainly happens when the 'update network settings' button is pushed). Then its md5 checksum is compared with the previously executed custom.sh file. If the md5 checksums mismatch (the custom.sh has been altered) the custom.sh is executed otherwise it is not, thus ensuring each device executes the custom.sh file only once.

The custom.sh file itself is deleted after the firmware ran it. Only the md5 checksum is stored in the uci config system. To verify whether or not your script ran you can retrieve the checksum with:

uci get node.setting.cs_md5

We save the downloaded custom.sh file as custom_script.sh under the /tmp directory and then execute it using /bin/sh -c /tmp/custom_script.sh

Re-running a script

Note that if you wish to run your script more than once (without altering it) you need to delete the stored md5 checksum and force a dashboard config reload by pushing the 'update network settings' button. To clear the md5 checksum and re-run an existing script, use http://customsh.cloudtrax.com/noop/ first, then add your original script URL.

If you need to the script to run on a regular basis, it should install itself as a cronjob.

Schedule Script / Cronjob

Because downloading the script over and over is neither efficient nor feasible (you would have to keep pushing the button) it is recommended you install a permanent script onto the device and link it to one of the special purpose folders firmware-ng comes with:

/etc/cron.5mins/ - Every script in this folder will be executed every 5 minutes.

/etc/cron.hourly/ - Every script in this folder will be executed once per hour.